Ankle cartilage surface segmentation using directional gradient vector flow snakes

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2745-2748

  Tang, Jinshan ^a   Millington, Steven ^a,b   Acton, Scott T ^a   Crandall, Jeff ^a   Hurwitz, Shepard ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE MAPS; ENERGY FUNCTIONS; EULER EQUATIONS; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW SNAKES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARTILAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SET THEORY; VECTORS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 20444453306     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2004.1421672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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